LEADER 03745nam 2200877 a 450 001 9910791734603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78170-306-X 010 $a1-84779-346-0 024 7 $a10.7765/9781847793461 035 $a(CKB)2560000000085671 035 $a(EBL)1069705 035 $a(OCoLC)818847504 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000747070 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12385829 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000747070 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10704296 035 $a(PQKB)10957572 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085702 035 $a(OCoLC)934664298 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78030 035 $a(OCoLC)1132223309 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1069705 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10627278 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL843560 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1069705 035 $a(DE-B1597)660403 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781847793461 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000085671 100 $a20121206d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe feminine public sphere$b[electronic resource] $emiddle-class women in civic life in Scotland, c.1870-1914 /$fMegan Smitley 205 $aOnline-ausg. 210 $aManchester $cManchester University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (189 p.) 225 0 $aGender in History 225 0$aGender in history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7190-7966-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCopyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The organisations; 2. The feminine public sphere; 3. Temperance reform and the feminine public sphere; 4. The women's movement and female temperance reform; 5. New views of the women' suffrage campaign:Liberal women and regional perspectives; Conclusion; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; Appendix 5; Appendix 6; Bibliography; Index 330 0 $aAt a time when women were barred from clerical roles, middle-class women made use of the informal power structures of Victorian and Edwardian associationalism in order to actively participate as citizens. This investigation of women's part in civic life provides a fresh approach to the 'public sphere', illuminates women as agents of a middle-class identity and develops the notion of a 'feminine public sphere', or the web of associations, institutions and discourses used by disenfranchised middle-class women to express their citizenship. The extent of middle-class women's contribution to civic. 410 0$aGender in History 606 $aMiddle class women$zScotland$xSocial conditions$y19th century 606 $aMiddle class women$zScotland$xSocial conditions$y20th century 606 $aCitizenship$zScotland 606 $aCivics, British 606 $aWomen$xPolitical activity$zScotland 610 $aassociationalism. 610 $acitizenship. 610 $ainformal power structures. 610 $alocal government. 610 $amiddle-class women. 610 $anineteenth-century Britain. 610 $aphilanthropic associations. 610 $aseparate spheres. 610 $asuffrage. 610 $awomen's public lives. 615 0$aMiddle class women$xSocial conditions 615 0$aMiddle class women$xSocial conditions 615 0$aCitizenship 615 0$aCivics, British. 615 0$aWomen$xPolitical activity 676 $a305.48962209411 700 $aSmitley$b Megan$01561626 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791734603321 996 $aThe feminine public sphere$93828546 997 $aUNINA